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  2. Subsidized housing - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Subsidized housing is government sponsored economic assistance aimed towards alleviating housing costs and expenses for impoverished people with low to moderate incomes. In the United States, subsidized housing is often called "affordable housing". Forms of subsidies include direct housing subsidies, non-profit housing, public housing ...

  3. Workforce housing - Wikipedia

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    Workforce housing is a term that is increasingly used by planners, government, and organizations concerned with housing policy or advocacy. It is gaining cachet with realtors, developers and lenders. Workforce housing can refer to any form of housing, including ownership of single or multi-family homes, as well as occupation of rental units.

  4. Lease purchase contract - Wikipedia

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    Lease purchase contract. A Lease-Purchase Contract, also known as a lease purchase agreement or rent-to-own agreement, allows consumers to obtain durable goods [1] or rent-to-own real estate [2] without entering into a standard credit contract. [1] It is a shortened name for a lease with option to purchase contract.

  5. How struggling households can get federal rental assistance

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    Congress passed two different rental relief packages. The first, approved in December, provided $25 billion for rental relief. The second, approved in March, provides more than $21 billion. In ...

  6. New apartments hitting the Tri-Cities market. Tenants being ...

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    The $40 million, 160-unit apartment complex by Cedar and Sage, 355 Bradley Blvd. Richland, is still a construction site. But it has begun leasing finished units to interest tenants and is offering ...

  7. Single-room occupancy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Single-room occupancy ( SRO) is a type of low-cost housing typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes, or single adults who like a minimalist lifestyle, who rent small, furnished single rooms with a bed, chair, and sometimes a small desk. [ 1] SRO units are rented out as permanent residence and/or primary residence [ 2 ...

  8. Rent-seeking - Wikipedia

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    Rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e., the portion of income paid to a factor of production in excess of what is needed to keep it employed in its current use) by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth.

  9. Renting - Wikipedia

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    Renting, also known as hiring[ 1] or letting, [ 2] is an agreement where a payment is made for the use of a good, service or property owned by another over a fixed period of time. To maintain such an agreement, a rental agreement (or lease) is signed to establish the roles and expectations of both the tenant and landlord.